The Bride may not have dreamed of her wedding day, but strangely enough she has always dreamed of the stand mixer she will acquire when, at last, she became a Real Grown Up. On no account was it acceptable to get a stand mixer before that stage was reached — it was too big and heavy, after all, for a pre-Grown Up to consider carrying around. The path to said Grown Up state turned out to be more twisty and strange than she imagined, and in fact she owns many things bigger and heavier than stand mixers now, but the acquisition of a stand mixer is still in her mind the symbol of Finally Settling Down. It isn't even like she actually mixes cake that often — or desires to — but perhaps Finally Settling Down will change all that.
In any case, about those registries...
Right now we
have two registry links — one on Amazon for the run of the
mill stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wedding&id=4ZXVDFQVV0H3
and another on Wishpot for things not carried by Amazon:
http://www.wishpot.com/list.aspx?uid=23633&list=82571
These are still insufficiently populated, but
more things should be added soon. We are having some
difficulty extending the "us" we have built into a
co-shopping unit, given the groom's bitter hatred of
shopping and the bride's lack of experience sharing shopping
responsibilities. Nag us if we are remiss. We appreciate
your concern. On the other hand, we are reassured by rumors
that many wedding presents are given after the wedding; we
certainly won't object to a delay, especially given how late
we are with the registries.
The bride does have a strong, and atypical, philosophy of shopping, which is this: spend less money to get nicer stuff by avoiding paying for the "new car smell." She likes buying furniture pre-scratched — you can get better quality cheaper that way, and then you don't have to worry about being the one to put the first scratch on it. These registries list things at a level of scratchless retail perfection that the bride would never buy herself; if any guests have things perhaps originally nicer, but older and more comfortably scratched up, they shouldn't hesitate to consider it an acceptable gift.